Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of architecture critics, died today. She was the first architecture critic for The New York Times and the first journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1970. Writing into her 90s for the Wall Street Journal, she contributed a piece on New York City's Public Library just last month.

"Every architecture critic will be in her debt forever," said architecture critic Paul Goldberger on Twitter. | Jan. 7, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)

Lee E. Erickson, 58, of South Milwaukee followed an undercover Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy into a bathroom at Grant Park along Milwaukee's lakefront, exposed himself and began masturbating in front of the officer, according to the sheriff's department. | Nov. 5, 2013»Read Full Article

Death has a way of clarifying life, or so say great philosophers and New Orleans artist Candy Chang. It has a way of making us examine the kind of person we want to be, the life we want to live, the people who are important to us.

On Tuesday, people in the Bay View neighborhood were confronted by the finiteness of their lives as a result of one of Chang’s projects. A wall that reads “Before I die I want to...” and has little buckets of colored chalk so people can fill in the blanks was installed at the Sky High Skateboard Shop and Gallery, 2501 S. Howell Ave., and in cities across the U.S. on Tuesday. | Nov. 5, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(2)